Short-toed Snake-eagle, Circaetus gallicus, is a species of day-flying bird of prey found in grassland, heathland and shrub and woodland and forest ecosystems.

Circaetus gallicus has a breeding population size of 14700-16600 pairs and a breeding range size of 1220000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Stable in the short term and Increasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Circaetus gallicus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).